language parallax

A while back I posted something on parrot. Recently someone stopped by to ask for a little more detail on that opinion.
First I should say that I haven’t done anything with Parrot since the very early days when things were very much still in flux and you could barely do arithmetic with the thing. […]

I’ve seen a couple academic job openings lately that have got me thinking about that option. I usually imagine myself going back to industry, but there are some things an academic career offers that would be hard to beat. But if I’m going to land a decent job, I need to do better […]

You may notice a couple of changes:
The most obvious one is that I have a Google AdSense area for text ads on the left. I’m doing this just out of curiousity — so I can see the kinds of reports it generates. If the ads created by this space allow me to purchase […]

I’ve just registered linguisticparallax.com and languageparallax.com. I’ll use the first as the brand for this blog and for any java packages that I publish.
In doing so, I’m finally embracing the photography (and astronomy) metaphor that I’ve been thinking of for a while. The word parallax refers to the change in the relative position […]

I finally figured out how to use the gallery. I have no idea what I was doing wrong before. For some reason the Gallery 2 UI baffles me far more than the previous gallery did.
At any rate, I hope to upload a select few photos from time to time. There’a a few […]

Just saw this featured video on YT:

Hello, loyal readers.  The site has been away for a while, but it’s back and better than ever.  Well, not really.  Kinda.  It’s being hosted on a dedicated colocated server now.  Hopefully the uptime will be decent.
For the moment, I’m not going to grab any of the old content.  Except eventually the pictures.  Better to […]